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Urbanized trailer

FilmFestFriday > Film & Animation / Urban & Landscape Design

"Urbanized" is the much-anticipated final instalment of the Gary Hustwit design film trilogy. >

12 Feb 12
Y Tsai

Cape Town designer Y Tsai takes a multidisciplinary approach to generating creative solutions in the field of furniture, interior design and architecture. >

1 Feb 12
Fixing holes

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

A pretty little garden scene in a pothole on the streets of London is a great way to make people smile and alert them to potholes. >

31 Jan 12
Your Street Challenge now in KZN

Do Tank News > Urban & Landscape Design / Design Activism

How would you use R50 000 and lots of creativity to transform an urban experience on the streets of KwaZulu-Natal? >

26 Jan 12
MIT SENSEable City Laboratory

Carlo Ratti and Assaf Biderman teach at the MIT, where they are director and associate director (respectively) of the SENSEable City Laboratory. >

25 Jan 12
Lindsay Kinkade on combining art, design and public policy

Talks > Art & Photography / Information Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Lindsay Kinkade talks about using open-source methodology to make public policy, particularly the American healthcare system, more understandable. >

5 Jan 12
Knock knock

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

A South Korean artist used 1000 recycled doors to create a "construction shield" that doubled up as an interesting visual point in an urban centre. >

5 Jan 12
Check mates

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

An outdoor art installation in the Japanese city of Osaka used the game of Checkers to create an enriched, interactive public space. >

5 Jan 12
Shiny & red

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Thomas Heatherwick designed sleek new hybrid double-decker buses for London, and they're 15% more fuel-efficient than existing hybrids. >

31 Dec 11
Everybody smile

Design News > Interaction Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Smile! The "face" atop the lighthouse is watching you. >

16 Dec 11
Urban acupuncture

Profiling > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Alfredo Brillembourg of interdisciplinary design practice Urban-Think Tank will be speaking at Design Indaba 2012. Here he offers insight into his work. >

15 Dec 11
Strijdom van der Merwe at Design Indabar

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Land artist Strijdom van der Merwe shows how creativity can help to draw attention to and facilitate understanding of issues around climate change. >

14 Dec 11
Assaf Biderman at Design Indabar

Video Interviews > Information Design / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Networked technology and connectivity is changing the way we move around cities, says Assaf Biderman. >

14 Dec 11
Urban origami

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Spanish street artist Nuria Mora creates large and colourful origami pieces for urban spaces. >

12 Dec 11
Copper classic

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The Madison Street Model bicycle is inspired by the vintage bikes of the 1930s. >

10 Dec 11
CCR Expo at COP17

The CCR Expo at COP17 in Durban presents performances, discussions and exhibitions around issues of climate change. >

9 Dec 11
Mokena Makeka at Design Indabar

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

Mokena Makeka believes creativity will change the world, provided creativity is given an opportunity to do so. >

8 Dec 11
Urban-Think Tank

Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design related to contemporary architecture and urbanism. >

6 Dec 11
Design Helsinki

Reviews > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

20+12 Design Stories from Helsinki is a journey through the 2012 World Design Capital, looking at what design can do in a city. >

5 Dec 11
Tiles for smiles

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The Anda Project in Argentina is a creative urban initiative to fix broken tiles on the pavements with more colourful replacements. >

27 Nov 11
Jens Martin Skibsted on the evolution of bicycle design

Talks > Design Thinking / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Jens Martin Skibsted has been “shouting cars out of the city” for a long time. >

24 Nov 11
Pedro Reyes on making cities better

Talks > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Urban & Landscape Design

Pedro Reyes tells of his “Palas por Pistolas” project that saw weapons being voluntarily turned in and transformed into garden shovels. >

24 Nov 11
Urban benefits

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award calls for ideas that address issues of mass urbanisation in Cape Town. >

23 Nov 11
Functions for green

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Functional Green is an installation that looks at ways of making urban farming really accessible. >

22 Nov 11

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